Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-17
Truth and the New Era.

The New Era attempts a psychic
logical diagnostication of a prohibi-
ZIONIST, but misses it about as far as a
self elated young doctor who pro-
nounced a humble bee sting on II
country lads foot can aggravated
case of erysipelas," but the rough lad
snatched his No. 10 foot from the
wise scrutiny of the young disciple of
Esculapius saying as he warmed the
side Of his old sorrel horse with a
persimmon limb, /" Eri-hell, Doe, a
humble bee stinged it while er go.">
The Era squirms impatiently at
my criticism of the following SANDER
of the Church and Sunday school in
the Erao of the 9th alt. Surely the Era
is ashamed of it, but | will, never
theless represent it once more and
add the plaintive wall of Sept. 3.
Issue of Aug, y, the Era said
! Today in McMinnville while the
Church and Sunday school is arrayed
against the men of the State as would
be lawmakers to hunt men to the
scatfold, who represents the Church
of God?"
Here follows the miserable apollo
gy in the Era of the 10th inst.
"'Truth takes a small extract
from the Era of Aug. 9th, and treats
it as the WhoB of the article to which
it belongs. The Era's article was a
criticism of the position assigned to
the church by Bishop Foster of the
Methodist church, as a law maker
and executor, and which position the
church and Sunday school agreed to
occupy on the day of the rally, but
for the rain-the beautiful rain. Are
not the banners which they were
prohibited to use on that occasion,
now folded away in various soli-
tudes?"
We must inform the Era that it has
no time to look after the Church OF
God if it takes care of that bastard OF
the devil and avarice-I mean the IL
quor traffic. 1t seems however that
the bastard serpent is left kicking in
its saloon cradle while the Era is in
Detroit trying to find out if the Wo.
mems Christian Temperance Union
is of the masculine gender, or of the
feminine gender, or of the neutel
gender, or of the common gender
and blindly insists that the head O
the w. c. T. T., is feminine "onlS
in dress" Here is the Erals iudg
ment of the w. C. r. U.
The mechanical part of this organ
izatiOn consists in a ladder of unions
On the top round are a few who diff
fer from men only in their dress
They might also be called the heac
or thinking and planning portion o
the body. There are some interme
date rounds as mediums of commu
~nicatiOn between the highest anC
lowest. On the lowest are thousand.
and thousands of good women VIII,
blindly do the will of the few on to-
and pay for the servile privilege. A
the feet doeth the will of the head il
blindness, so the local unions of tn,
w. c. T. u, in ignorance supper
the designs of the National Union.
If the Era really believes this it
f statement to be true then we can on
ly say to the Era that these ladie
are so finely educated as to be mis-
taken for men, by the Era.
The Era should learn that thes
/, Christian women are smart-nearl,
smart as men-smarter than man,
men-and vastly superior to mel
who asperse their names and vilif,
their organic work.
Why does the Era gloat IN its chos
en- work in the Kinney and Vertree
line" short haired women and crow
ing hens?"
Are prohibition ladies in the Era
f eye worse than the Internal still
!, house and thrice Internal saloon. Ha
the Era a single thing to say agains
the money crazed liquor traffic? l
the Era's idea of " personal liberty
the liberty to libel the Women
Christian Temperance Union, tn
) Church and Sunday school? Is it
idea of personal liberty so warped a
to speak of leading women in a hol,
, cause as differing from men only il
| their dreSs?" How does the Err
, know never having been associated
= so far as we KNOWN their phila,
tropic work?
l am deeply panied and hearth
ashamed of such a newspaper-and
the ladies of McMinnville woul
condescend to such a thing the
r would publicly bury the thing bt